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  • No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
  • Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
  • I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.
  • To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
  • When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
  • Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
  • We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Anatole France I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Kahlil Gibran I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Marlene Dietrich A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Winston Churchill Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bernie Sanders As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Albert Einstein As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • William Butler Yeats Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Brad Wenstrup Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • Louis Aragon Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Demi Moore For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
    Demi Moore
    American actress (1962 - )
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  • Anita Loos Gentlemen prefer blondes.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Andrew William Mellon Gentlemen prefer bonds.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Brent Spiner Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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